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Job: Information Systems Specialist (9-1-1 GIS Specialist)

Temporary, but maybe permanent.

This is a way to get your foot in the door at an organization. Take a temporary position that looks like they are chasing funding to make permanent. If they get the funding, you end up with a permanent job. See this position with Oregon Emergency Management Information Systems Specialist (9-1-1 GIS Specialist).

I have said for years, one way to compete against mid-career people trying to transitioning into emergency management is to have a skill they don't have, like GIS!

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.